Today’s outlook: Nawaz Sharif’s arrest warrant to be published
via SAMAA
Here are some of the stories we will be following today (Monday):
- PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called Prime Minister Imran Khan “selected” once again at the PDM rally in Karachi Sunday night. PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz, on the other hand, said that the premier’s fear of the opposition was evident from his speech at the Tiger Force Convention.
- SAMAA TV reporter Sanjay Sadhwani was beaten by men claiming to be PPP volunteers at the rally. He was filming women not being allowed to leave the venue.
- PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz’s husband Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar Awan was arrested from a hotel in Karachi on Monday morning on charges of sloganeering at the Quaid’s tomb.
- PML-N founder Nawaz Sharif’s arrest warrant will be published today. A copy of the warrant will also be sent to the former prime minister. The court has given a deadline till October 29 to seize his assets.
- Former US treasury secretary Lawrence H Summers lauded Pakistan’s strategy to fight the novel coronavirus. He said that if America had taken similar measures, it will have been able to save $10 trillion.
- A passenger van was crushed by falling rocks on the Gilgit-Skardu Road on Sunday, killing 16 people. The police said the van was travelling from Rawalpindi to Skardu.